https://www.siliconvalley.com/2025/02/04/elias-let-buyers-beware-during-reconstruction-from-l-a-county-wildfires/

As the flames of California history’s most damaging winter began to cool, decision times were about to arrive for tens of thousands of the state’s newest homeless people.

Some evacuees had homes to return to, some did not. This was almost like a random lottery, but those whose homes fell to the January wildfires in the city and county of Los Angeles suddenly face decisions they never wanted to think about. The questions are no different from those that confronted victims of many fires over the last few years but are made different and maybe more difficult because of scale.